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wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … the groups of women and part-timers generate employer rents, but also that the origin of these rents differs (relatively … part-timers is associated with wage penalties. The authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for …
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to young workers. Findings further indicate that average hourly wages within firms increase significantly and …
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Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...
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This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely due to changes in the wage structure. The analysis...
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